A blue wooden bridge on a golden lake, an ochre sky with a few clouds drifting by and brown to black bushes. The ingredients for a surreal colour palette and image.
This work was created on holiday in the Netherlands. On the way from Dronten to Elburg on a sunny day. Walking to the lake where several boats formed a kind of parade which was sometimes interrupted by a swan. During a workshop we will capture our surroundings with our cameras's. We will then print these images and edit them using various techniques.
I took a photo of this spot which I later edited with oil pastel. An oily chalk where it is nice to work with several layers and let the colours flow into each other. In several places, the ground is still visible in the whole, giving it a role to play.
This warm colour palette has created a dreamy, surrealistic atmosphere. Gazing over the water, sinking into your own thoughts.